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J. W. RHODES. MEANS FOR OPERATING SWINGING GATES.

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.No, 471,193. Patented Mar. 23, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES W. RHODES, OF CAMERON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HORACE R. BELSHER,OF LEXINGTON, TEXAS.

MEANS FOR OPERATING SWINGING GATES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,193, dated March22, 1892.

Application filed January 12,1892. Serial No. 417,856. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES W. Rnonns, acitizen of the United States,residing at Cameron, in the county of Milam and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Means for Operating Swinging Gates, of whichthe following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in means for operating swinginggates.

The object of the present invention is to simplify and improve theconstruction of means for opening and closing swinging gates and toenable the same to be operated by moving the operating-levers in thedirection in which the person is going.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a swinging gateprovided with operating mechanism constructed in accordance with thisinvention, the gate being shown open. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing thegate closed.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

1 designates a swinging gate, which is provided at its inner end with avertical bar 2, having its lower end journal-ed in a suitable bearingand provided at its upper end with an extension 3, loosely arranged in abearing 4, whereby the gate is adapted to be slightly tilted to lift itslatch 5 out of engagement with a keeper 6 of alatch-post7 andakeeper 8of a supplemental latch-post 9. The upper bearing 4 consists,essentially, of aloop, and the extension 3 is rounded at the bearing andhas secured to and coiled around its upper end a chain 10, which has itsend secured to parallel levers 11. The levers 11 have their farther endsconnected by a wire 12 and are fulcrumed intermediate their ends on ahorizontal bar 13 of ahinge post 14. The ends of the levers 11 areconnected by wires 15 and 16 with operating-levers 17. The wires 15 areparallel and the Wires 16 are crossed and are diagonally arranged,whereby the levers 17 are moved toward the gate to open the latter andaway from the same in closing the gate. The points of attachment of theends of the chain are beyond the extension and between the same and thehorizontal bar, whereby the draft on the chain will tilt the gate andlift the latch. A rope or strap may be employed instead of a chain.

The inner ends of the operating-levers are shaped into handles, so thatthey may be readily grasped by a person on horseback or in a vehicle,and they are fulcrumed intermediate their ends on posts 18, which arearranged a sufficient distance from the gate to enable the latter inopening and closing to clear a vehicle.

What I claim is- The combination of a hinge-post having a horizontal barat its upper end and provided with a bearing, a swinging gate providedat its inner end with an extension loosely arranged in said bearing, theparallel levers fulcrumed intermediate their ends on the horizontal barand having their farther ends connected, a chain or the. like secured toand coiled around the extension of the gate and having its ends securedto the parallel levers at points beyond the said extension, andoperating-levers mounted on suitable posts and connected with the endsof the parallel levers, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES W. RHODES.

Witnesses:

W. M. GILL, FRANK J. CLEMENT.

